Zappa In New York – Deluxe consists of five
CDs from the Vault celebrating the 40th Anniversary
of the album’s release in 1978. Featured is the main
album in its original mix, remastered by Bob Ludwig
and available for the first time digitally. Also
included is a disc of relevant Vault nuggets and
over 3 hours of unreleased live performances from
the NYC Palladium concerts, representing every
composition played during the post-Christmas 4 show
engagement of 1976 and newly mixed in 2018.
Extensive Liner Notes by Ruth Underwood, Ray White &
Joe Travers with Jen Jewel Brown. Limited edition
metal tin mimicking a New York street manhole houses
the 5CD collection.

The 5CD set is available in limited quantity’s and
will come packaged in an embossed tin box (18cm x
2.5cm) that resembles a New York City manhole cover
and contains a 60 page book.

Recorded live in New York City at the end of 1976.
Heavy on, well, “freewheeling” lyrical content, with
“Titties & Beer” and “The Illinois Enema Bandit”
(the latter featuring “sophisticated narration” by
Don Pardo) being special favorites with young males
of a certain age. Also here is the song that gets
most peoples’ vote for the best title ever to grace
a Zappa instrumental, “I Promise Not to Come In Your
Mouth.”

When Zappa first released this album in ’78, Warner
Brothers was especially nervous about a little tune
called “Punky’s Whips.” The tune concerned drummer
Terry Bozzio’s lurid sexual fantasies about one
Punky Meadows, guitarist for the band Angel. Since
Angel was then regarded as an important player in
the music industry (yeah, right), Warners sat on the
album for a long while and then deleted the track
altogether. With this CD reissue “Punky’s Whips” is
back in all its glory, along with four other songs
not on the original vinyl.